Dreams from Bunker Hill
by John Fante
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appears in About Los Angeles and Fiction.
My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twentyone years old, living in a world bounded on the west by Bunker Hill, on the east by Los Angeles Street, on the south by Pershing Square, and on the north by Civic Center. I was a busboy nonpare...
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appears in About Los Angeles and Fiction.
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